⁶ If it is good or if it is evil, we will be guided by the voice of the Lord our God, to whom we are sending you; so that it may be well for us when we give ear to the voice of the Lord our God.

²³ But this was the order I gave them, saying, Give ear to my voice, and I will be your God, and you will be my people: go in all the way ordered by me, so that all may be well for you.

²⁹ If only they had such a heart in them at all times, so that they might go in fear of me and keep my orders and that it might be well for them and for their children for ever!

³³ Go on walking in the way ordered for you by the Lord your God, so that life may be yours and it may be well for you, and your days may be long in the land of your heritage.

⁷ Because the mind of the flesh is opposite to God; it is not under the law of God, and is not able to be:

¹³ Was then that which is good, death to me? In no way. But the purpose was that sin might be seen to be sin by working death to me through that which is good; so that through the orders of the law sin might seem much more evil.

⁷ What then is to be said? is the law sin? in no way. But I would not have had knowledge of sin but for the law: for I would not have been conscious of desire if the law had not said, You may not have a desire for what is another's.

¹⁰ Happy is the upright man! for he will have joy of the fruit of his ways.

² You will have the fruit of the work of your hands: happy will you be, and all will be well for you.

¹³ If only my people would give ear to me, walking in my ways!

¹⁴ I would quickly overcome their haters: my hand would be turned against those who make war on them.

¹⁵ The haters of the Lord would be broken, and their destruction would be eternal.

¹⁶ I would give them the best grain for food; you would be full of honey from the rock.

²⁴ And the people said to Joshua, We will be the servants of the Lord our God, and we will give ear to his voice.

² So that living in the fear of the Lord your God, you may keep all his laws and his orders, which I give you: you and your son and your son's son, all the days of your life; and so that your life may be long.

³ So give ear, O Israel, and take care to do this; so that it may be well for you, and you may be greatly increased, as the Lord the God of your fathers has given you his word, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

⁷ And he took the book of the agreement, reading it in the hearing of the people: and they said, Everything which the Lord has said we will do, and we will keep his laws.